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“THE first known case happened in 1144; after that, cases cropped up from time to time until the Jews were expelled from the realm by Edward I. The most famous of these cases was that of Little St. Hugh of Lincoln in 1255.

“I record these cases in chronological order; and I do not deny the possibility of some of them in which details are lacking, being “trumped-up” ones, where death may have been due to causes other than ritual murder and the jews blamed for it; but the case of St. Hugh, particularly, was juridically decided, and the Close and Patent Rolls of the Realm record definitely cases at London, Winchester and Oxford. There seems no reason to doubt that many cases of ritual murder have been unsuspected and even undiscovered.

“1144. Norwich. A twelve-year-old boy was crucified and his side pierced at the jewish Passover. His body was found in a sack hidden in a tree. A converted jew, called Theobald of Cambridge, confessed that the jews took blood every year from a Christian child because they thought that only by so doing could they ever obtain their freedom and return to Palestine, and that it was their custom to draw lots to decide whence the blood was to be supplied; Theobald said that last year the lot fell to Narbonne but in this year to Norwich. The boy was locally beatified and has ever since been known as St. William. The Sheriff, probably bribed, refused to bring the jews to trial.

“1160. Gloucester. The body of a child named Harold was found in the river with the usual wounds of crucifixion. Sometimes wrongly dated 1168. Recorded in Monumenta Germaniæ Historica, Vol. VI (Erfurt Annals); Polychronicon, R. Higdon; Chronicles, R. Grafton, p. 46.

“1181. Bury St. Edmunds. A child called Robert was sacrificed at Passover. The child was buried in the church and its presence there was supposed to cause ‘miracles.’ Authority: Rohrbacher, from the Chronicle of Gervase of Canterbury.

“1192. Winchester. A boy crucified. Mentioned in jewish Encyclopædia as being a false charge. Details lacking.

“1232. Winchester. Boy crucified. Details lacking. Mentioned in Hyamson’s History of the jews in England; also in Annals of Winchester; and conclusively in the Close Roll 16, Henry III, membrane 8, 26.6.1232.

“1235. Norwich. In this case, the jews stole a child and hid him with a view to crucifying him. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates of date 1847, says of this case, “They (the jews) circumcise and attempt to crucify a child at Norwich; the offenders are condemned in a fine of 20,000 marks.” Further authority Huillard Breolles Grande Chronique, III, 86. Also Close Roll, 19 Henry III, m. 23.

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“1244. London. A child’s body found unburied in the cemetery of St. Benedict, with ritual cuts. Buried with great pomp in St. Paul’s. Authority: Social England, Vol. I, p. 407, edited by H. D. Traill.

“1255. Lincoln. A boy called Hugh was kidnapped by the jews and crucified and tortured in hatred of Jesus Christ. The boy’s mother found the body in a well on the premises of a jew called Joppin or Copinus. This jew, promised by the judge his life if he confessed, did so, and 91 jews were arrested; eventually 18 were hanged for the crime. King Henry III himself personally ordered the juridical investigation of the case five weeks after the discovery of the body, and refused to allow mercy to be shown to the jew Copinus, who was executed.

“1257. London. A child sacrificed. Authority: Cluverius, Epitome Historiæ, p. 541. Details lacking.

“1276. London. Boy crucified. Authority: The Close Roll of the Realm, 4, Edward I, membrane 14, 3.3.1276.

“1279. Northampton. A child crucified. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates, 1847, says of this case: “They (the jews) crucify a child at Northampton for which 50 are drawn at horses’ tails and hanged.” Further authorities: Reiley, Memorials of London, p. 15; H. Desportes, Le Mystère du Sang.

“1290. Oxford. The Patent Roll 18 Edward I, mem. 21, 21st June, 1290, contains an order for the gaol delivery of a jew, Isaac de Pulet, detained for the murder of a Christian boy at Oxford. Only one month after this, King Edward issued his decree expelling the jews from the Kingdom. There is, then, every reason to believe that it was the Oxford murder which proved the last straw in toleration. Whom do you believe –– the Jews or the English?”

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